Research & Applied AI
42AI Lab
Applied AI projects with mentorship, peer review, and portfolio visibility. Build real solutions, learn by doing, and share your work with the community.
Highlights
Featured projects
A selection of active and completed Lab projects. Build real deliverables, learn by doing, and share openly.
RAG Tutor for the AI Piscine
RAG-based teaching assistant to answer students’ questions during the AI Piscine, with citations and gap tracking.
MLOps Starter Kit (reproducible deployment)
MLOps project template with training, tracking, registry, CI/CD, and deployment, tailored for student teams.
Data Quality Monitoring (drift + schemas)
PoC for data quality checks and drift detection for datasets and features, with simple alerting.
Video Action Recognition (baseline)
Baseline for video action classification with preprocessing and a simple distributed training setup.
What is the AI Lab?
The 42AI Lab is a collaborative space where students work on applied AI projects with guidance from mentors and peers. Projects range from research prototypes to production-ready solutions.
Each project follows a structured process from ideation to publication, ensuring quality deliverables and meaningful learning experiences.
Build real deliverables
Focus on creating tangible outputs that solve real problems and can be showcased in portfolios.
Learn by doing
Combine mentorship with peer review to accelerate learning through hands-on experience.
Share openly
Make projects visible through portfolios, open-source contributions, and public demos.
Process
How it works
Idea & scope
Define project goals, requirements, and success criteria with mentors.
Data & baseline
Gather datasets, establish baselines, and set up the development environment.
Build & iterate
Develop the solution with regular code reviews, testing, and iterative improvements.
Demo & publish
Present results, publish code/documentation, and share learnings with the community.
Have an idea? Propose a project and get feedback from mentors.
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